Holy War, Child Abuse & the Book of Judges Judges 2, etc.

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Eliminate evil immediately and completely. Success in Joshua

Eliminate evil immediately and completely. Failure in Joshua

Why did God say certain tribes must be driven out? Amorites (“Westerners”) Hittites Girgashites Canaanites Perizzites Hivites Jebusites Rules of War- Deuteronomy 20 (v16-18)

❖ Descendants of Ham & Canaan- Genesis 10:15-19 (2300 BC) ❖ Abraham had lived among them- Genesis 15:15-20 (1900 BC) ❖ Lot’s family intermarried with some who were destroyed in Sodom & Gomorrah- Genesis 19 (1900 BC) ❖ Isaac & Jacob witnessed to them, Esau married some of them- Genesis (1800 BC) ❖ They knew about the Plagues of Egypt & the Red Sea- Joshua 1:9-11 (1400 BC) ❖ They knew about the Crossing of the Jordan River; They united to attack the Children of Israel- Joshua 5:1 (1400 BC) Why did God say certain tribes must be driven out?

❖ “Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” Genesis 15: (1900 BC) ❖ “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you. For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.” Leviticus 18: (1400 BC) Why did God say certain tribes must be driven out?

Child Abuse Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study

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❖ v20 “Behold, I send an Angel before you... ❖ v23 “For My Angel will go before you... I will cut them off... ❖ v27 “I will send My fear before you, I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. ❖ v28 And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you. ❖ v29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. ❖ v30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land. “Holy War”? God’s Role (Exodus 23)

❖ v11 Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. ❖ v12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. ❖ v13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images ❖ v15-16 lest you...take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods. ❖ v17 “You shall make no molded gods for yourselves. “Holy War”? Children of Israel’s Role (Exodus 34)

Those who trusted God and abandoned evil could be saved! “And Joshua spared Rahab the harlot, her father’s household, and all that she had. So she dwells in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.” Joshua 6:25

Those who trusted God and abandoned evil could be saved! “So he showed them the entrance to the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go.” Judges 1:25

In the last days those who trust God and abandon evil can be saved! “Babylon the great is fallen... Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.” Revelation 18:2-5

In the last days those who trust God and abandon evil can be saved! “Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations... And He has on His robe...a name written:KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS” Revelation 19:15

In the last days those who trust God and abandon evil can be saved! “Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations... They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.” Revelation 20:7-9

What idol do you need to give up immediately and completely?